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Michael Bay Renames Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Just To Wind You 30somethings Up Even More

March 28th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Michael Bay has been tinkering with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles format as he bids to make a shiny new film about the four reptilian annoyances (okay, Donatello was okay, but the other three were dick-heads of the highest order).

First he told us that they were going to be aliens, then he told us that Splinter was being replaced by a sexy Mexican woman and Bebop & Rocksteady are going to be stoner robots who like dubstep… so what now?

Well, Bay has taken to his blog to tell us that he’s renaming them to make the film ‘simpler’.

Michael Bay To Spoil Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles For Everyone

March 20th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, heroes in a half shell, turtle power. Or, indeed, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles if you lived in a country so lame that they were frightened of a word.

Anyway, the Turtles are coming back under the teenage boybrain of Michael Bay. April O’Neill is going to be a teen wank fantasy isn’t she? A Shredder will probably have giant robot wang.

And Bay has already upset everyone by hinting at what he’s going to change in the story. It includes the word ‘alien’.

The Simpsons Supposedly Offer A 500th Anniversary Episode That Isn't Terrible

February 21st, 2012 By Matthew Laidlow

Visit a branch of Weatherspooons on a weekend and you\’ll no doubt bump into a decaying mess on the dance floor that's tried to cover their appearance by plastering on the makeup. Everybody loves to witness a female attempt to look young as they prance around in their daughter's top that shows off every ravage of age.

Basically, some people in life should accept that their sell by date has arrived and just stop. Sadly, this doesn't happen and the same can be said about long running animation, The Simpsons. Reaching its peak in the mid nineties, the show has continued to lag in quality and started to become awkward and confusing.

But The Simpsons broadcaster has faith and continues to recommission the programme. Americans either have an alternative view take on humour, or Fox like the money from the merchandise. Either way, The Simpsons has reached a landmark 500th episode.

Ulysses 31: Watch The Live Action Version!

November 23rd, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll definitely remember Ulysses 31. You’ll know the theme tune off by heart and recall those horrible, ghostly cadavers that hung in the air that dead smoke. Even if you hated it (what’s wrong with you?), you’ll know all that.

Of course, nostalgia is big business and Ulysses 31 is something that is oft remembered, but rarely given proper tribute in favour of Thundercats and Transformers. Ulysses 31 is up there with The Mysterious Cities Of Gold in the criminally overlooked league.

However, that’s all changed with a live action version of the best sci-fi cartoon ever made. Don’t argue. You’re wrong or a contrarian if you liked Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors better. Anyway, shall we watch a really cool video together?

SpongeBob SquarePants Gets Arrested Out Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood [Photo]

September 15th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Oh SpongeBob SquarePants! You lovable oaf you! You’re like a diet Ren & Stimpy and we can’t knock you for it. You’re a delightfully odd chap and have delightfully odd chums.

However.

Things have taken a turn for the worse for SpongeBob as it transpires via various reports that he’s been arrested outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood! And we’ve got the photographic evidence! And it’s not us doing some dodgy photoshopping either.

New Beavis And Butthead For All You Dumbasses

July 25th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur. Cool. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh hehehehe hmngh hehehehehehe. ‘Rules. Hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur hur. Dumbass.

If you’re from the ’90s, then you’ll know that all articles concerning Beavis and Butthead must use the conjecture that they displayed in their excellent and often baffling MTV cartoon series.

This pair of slackers preceded the Jackass generation with a mixture of snotty rock, fondness for mindless destruction and laughing at stoopid shit. And now, they’re coming back to do it all over again.

Bugs Bunny Movie Imminent?

August 13th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Everyone loves Looney Tunes. The cartoons are 3 minutes long, contain ultra-violence, ace music and mild transvestism from animals stood on their hind-legs. What’s not to love? There is one sure-fire way of ruining a good cartoon though – that’s to make them 2 hours long and turn them 3D.

Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, Alvin and the Chipmunks and more have all been spoiled by meddling CGI pricks, determined to suck all the character out of classic characters by making them slightly realistic, forgetting that 2D is often best.

And so, can we expect the same from Bugs Bunny who is going to be revived by Warner Bros for a new live-action/CG movie?

Daeth By Dislexya: An Animation

January 20th, 2009 By Shawn Lindseth

For several years now hecklerspray has known it’s been third or fourth in line to inherit a low budget, poorly constructed South Korean animation studio. Luckily for us Kim Jong-il recently sent a batch of communist assassination tigers to tear at the throats of all those who stood in our way.

Not specifically because they stood in our way, mind you, but probably because they kept refusing Jong-il’s IM chat requests. Never deny a dictator, that’s one thing we’ve always lived by. Anyway – over the course of many, many months hecklerspray’s very own Shawn Lindseth has used his spare time to animate a moving story of love, loss, and a horrible plague of killer-dyslexia that absolutely ravages a city.

Top 16 80s Kids’ Cartoon Villains

September 20th, 2012 By David Schwartz

Did you know that the voice of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles baddie Shredder was actually voiced by Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air?

No? Neither did we – and we’re still recovering! Unless someone is playing a joke on us. Damn them! But it got us thinking: Why do we care so much about these characters? What is it about the cartoon baddies that we love so much?

Aren’t we supposed to hate them? Boo them when they come on the screen like some kind of pantomime villain? No, and the reason why is because they are usually the most interesting characters in the cartoon.

So we have decided to come up with 16 of the best 80s cartoon villains. They reason we went for the 80s is because, well, that was when we were all kids. Plus it was a golden era. Or is that what everyone says?

Enjoy, and feel free to tell us which ones we’ve missed…

New ‘Smurfs’ Movie Will Be Live Action. Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.

March 25th, 2009 By Ian Dransfield

Is nothing from our childhoods sacred?

The prospect of a movie based on the ancient and well-regarded cartoon The Smurfs was hardly something that had filled us with joy.

It made hecklerspray let out a trademark sigh as we looked forward to another summer of movies single-handedly decimating the best years of our lives.

But this week the news suddenly became plain ridiculous, when it was revealed the upcoming Smurfs movie, apparently still in the works even though everyone had forgotten about it, will be – wait for it – live action.